Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-04


( isCs to turn out we'd. On the place OF Ii.
/ ". Holmes, noar East Rome, some mar
bic has also been discovered. &. NJ. lar
per has some fine specimens OF slate taken
from quarry near the city. An expert
says 1t is as fine slate as that or ROCK
mart. A company is being organized 10
develop IL.
The ladies' Of the Baptist Sewing Society
OF HawkiusylIe have raised by indIvid-
ual effort during the past year S2O3 80.
with this amount they nave carpeted
their church, furnished chairs for the
choir, presented their pastor with Dap-
tlsmal suit and paid him SAB cash. The
balance on hand Jan. l was $G6 10. With
this and few dollars collected since, 1t
is proposed to purchase chairs Tor the
Sunday school room. This is record
worthy OF the workers.
H. II. SOrrells, who lives three miles
north OF Monroe, while at work on mis-
larn recently, was interrupted by his
dog freeing a squirrel near by, and on
investigation found the squirrel up a
small sapling. 1t ran down the tree and
made for a large pine. just as ii reached
the root OF the tree The dog Caukht and
killed it, Oh its neck Mr.. Sorrells was
surprised to tind small leather collar
buckIed with Il small brass ring on 1t.
1t must have been a pet that had escaped
from some one.
In addition to Hon. w. A. Gambler,
whose name has already been mentioned
in connection vita the Senatorship of the
Thirty fourth district, there are other
candttlete5 talked OF for that vacancy.
Or lohn l.. Hamilton, of Stone Mountain,
and 4IAa. J ohm b. Stewart, the Ordinary
Of Dekalb county, would not object to
making the sacrifice. 1t is reported that
GwInEett county is in favor OF w. j.
X attst on, of Dekalb. Under the rotation
system DeKalb will have the naming OF
tae senator.
Washington Chronicle: We were enter
tanned the other day vita music from
Yi0Ijn which was given to william W OOd-
all, St.. In the war of 1872. How much
older this instrument is no one knows.
Like good woman 1T retains the sweet
ness Of youth in Old age. Speaking Of
Violins reminds us OF one winch dlstin-
gulshed eX-COntcderate Captain lett at
Georgetown College when he came nome
to form a company 20 enter the army.
Gnis violin was made in 1860 by that most
celebrated maker, Mazzareni.
A Walton countryman told his expert
ence in cat moving the other day. AT one
time he changed his residence, carrying
with him three specimens of the feline
race. Within one month they were all
dead. On a similar occasion only two
cats were moved, and they very soon suf-
tered the fate OF the other three. When
a third change was made he took the
chances with only one animal, which tor
some time seemed to be move-prOOf, but
finally succumbed. They all died not
Witnstanding he was good cat-feeder.
Last week b. II. Walton dug a we'll IN
his back yard at Hamilton. When about
the depth of twenty-five feet he struck
Inlt 4 az hA1 hnf In
proceeded to investigate it. The rock
when broken'O open presented a very dark
gray APPEARANCE. Submitting one of
these pieces to very great heat II melted,
and when sprinkled with water gave out
sulphurous OdOr. Another piece,
weighing less than a pound, was heated,
and twenty or thirty minutes alter 1t was
taken out OF the fire was too hot to be
held in, the and.
In McDuffie county the gold mine fever
is raging. Especially is this so in the
neighborhood of Col. Smiths and William
WoOdalPs. 1t is understood that Col.
Smiths mine is paying handsomely. while
Mr.. Woodall has mine the ore OF which
has assayed S29 per ton. English capt.
taiists are constantly prospecting in these
mines with view OF purchasing. Some
fine offers have been refused. The hills
IN the neIghbOrhoOd are filled with pits
and shafts, and there Is enough dirt
thrown up TO make Dreastw Orks for q
thousand battles. Every one thinks he
has bonanza.
Bill Cross, Lawrence Taylor and Henry
Powell, three negro boys, have been hang
ing around the store OF Z. &c Clegg Il Co.,
at HawkinsyIlle, for the last two or three
weeks, making themselves useful in a
number OF ways, for which they demanded
no DaV--in fact threats from tho olprEs
failed to shake them of. On Monday
Pomp Robinson caught Bill Cross ribing
the money drawer. lie acknowledged that
he aud the other two boys had been steal
ing goods and money from the store Tor
some time, and it has been ascertained
that they appropriated to their own use
about $50 in cash and goods.
The $50 0O0 worth of court house bonds
for Oglethorpe cOunty's new court house
were sold at public cutlery at Lexington
Tor $20,j2I. Ihe first six sold for 81 900
eao1. The next, from number seven TO
twenty inclusive, at prices ranging from
$1,000 - to 81 $3.50 10. Some Of the bonds
were bought by citizens of the county and
the others by capitalists elsewhere. In
1892 the first bond tails due, and each
year thereafter one bond falls due until
the entire twenty are paid. The interest
Is per5cent., payable semI.aunually, in
January and July OF each year. The new
court house was finished completely Tues
datr!
On Saturday. night Col. Jacob Shellnut,
Of fIAESe,,pased away. He was an old
man-Srtt-fbf many years hadbe6n intirm
and Utmost helpless. Thirty or forty
years back Col. Shellnut commanded the
militia ,OI ~ alton county, and was one
of heript fSapr onr nent citizens in his day
and generation. A man OF education and
cultured feelings, he was much looked
up to by an who knew him. His pride
was manifested when, after ne had be
come quite feeble, he retuSeG TO remain a
burden TO his kinspeople, aud left the
root of relatives and sought a nome al the
county pOorhOuse. There he was given
every attention and comfort possible, and
there be died.
FLORIDA.
Efforts are being made TO pave Pine
street, Jacksonville, with the Wyckof
pavement.
The preliminary arrangements for the
erection of Iipe tirst-class hotel az Day
tona are now completed.
Dr. j. V. Harris has been appointed
discussing agent FOR the public building